Cesare Indiveri, is a Full Professor at University of Calabria, Dep. DiBEST. Prof. Indiveri focues on research projects related to plasma membrane transporters of nutrients and vitamins involved in cell physiology and pathology. The experimental model is a combined approach of in silico, in vitro and ex vivo tools.

Giuseppe Fiermonte is a Full Professor of Biochemistry at University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics. His research activities focus on the study of physio-pathological roles of mitochondrial transporters, cancer cell metabolism, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), branched-chain amino acids metabolism and mitochondrial uncoupling proteins.

Vincenzo Zara is a Full Professor of Biochemistry at University of Salento, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA). His research activities focus on the study of mitochondrial proteins in several cellular models, integrating mitochondrial energetics and metabolism with protein biogenesis.

Vincenza Dolce is a Full Professor of Biochemistry at University of Calabria, Rende (CS) (Italy), Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences. Her research activities interest is in mitochondrial bioenergetics and cell metabolism. She mainly works on the identification and characterization of enzyme and membrane transport systems, in particular on the functional characterization of mitochondrial carrier family members in Homo sapiens and model organism Drosophila melanogaster

Faustino Bisaccia is a full Professor at the Department of Sciences, University of Basilicata. The research interest of prof. Bisaccia is mainly focussed on the functional and structural characterization of proteins, using biochemical and cell biology techniques, aimed at understanding their molecular mechanism of action, both in physiological conditions and in pathogenetic processes.

Maria Barile, is a Full Professor at University of Bari (Aldo Moro), Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology, and Biopharmaceutics. Prof. Barile is an expert in enzymes and transporters involved in vitamin metabolism and cofactor synthesis. Her contribution in the projects includes cofactor analysis in humans and cell model manipulation.

Lorena Pochini, is an Associate Professor at University of Calabria, Dep. DiBEST. Lorena is experienced in the reconstitution procedure of plasma membrane transporters in liposomes and transport assays. Her involvement in the project also includes over-expression of human transporters in P. pastoris.

Michele Galluccio, is an Associate Professor at University of Calabria, Dep. DiBEST. Michele has experience in heterologous expression and purification of human membrane transporters. His role in the projects is focused in the production and purification of target proteins, mutagenesis and bioinformatics.

Loredana Capobianco is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at University of Salento, Lecce (Italy), Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA). Her research activities focus on the identification and functional characterization of membrane transport systems in man and model organisms such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Drosophila melanogaster.

Magnus Monné, is working at the Department of Sciences, University of Basilicata. The research interest of prof. Monné is focussed on mitochondrial carriers: identification of their substrates, transport mechanism, metabolic roles in physiology and disease by combining in vitro experiments with in silico approaches.

Alessandra Ferramosca is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at University of Salento, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA). Her research activities focus on the study of mitochondrial bioenergetics in physiological and pathological conditions, including its application as a therapeutic strategy.

Teresa M.R. Regina is a researcher at University of Calabria, Dep. DiBEST. Her research activity in the project aims to characterize the transporters localized at the vacuolar membrane in different plant species of agri-food interest, their specific substrates and transport mechanisms using molecular biology and biochemical approaches.

Simona Todisco, is a researcher at University of Basilicata, Department of Sciences. Dr. Todisco focuses her research on mitochondrial metabolism, including activity of mitochondrial carriers, in physiological and pathological conditions. The experimental strategy is a combined approach of in silico and in vitro models.

Eleonora Paradies is a Researcher at Institute of Biomembrane, Bioenergetic and Molecular Biotechnologies (IBIOM), National Research Council (CNR). Her research activities focus on: i) the identification and functional characterization of mitochondrial transport proteins, mainly in man, S. cerevisiae and D. melanogaster; ii) study of physio-pathological roles of mitochondrial transport proteins; iii) mitochondrial iron metabolism in genetic rare diseases (congenital sideroblastic anemia, Friedreich's ataxia); iv) mitochondrial uncoupling proteins.

Annamaria is involved on research on mitochondrial transport proteins, in particular focusing on structure/function relationship using biochemical, molecular biology and bioinformatics approach.

Nicola Giangregorio is a CNR (IBIOM) researcher with skills in biochemical techniques and molecular biology: - Identification, isolation and purification of membrane proteins; - Reconstitution of protein in artificial membranes (liposomes); - functional and kinetic studies of transport proteins; - identification of primary and secondary structure; - cloning and protein over-expression in bacteria; - site-directed mutagenesis; - genetic pathologies correlated to mutations in mitochondrial carriers; - protein chemical and functional modifications (xenobiotics compounds such as toxic molecules, drugs or newly synthesized compounds); - identification of posttranslational modifications (GSH, H2S, NO, acetylation, etc.) and their regulator role of the protein function; - use of bioinformatics for the comparative structural analysis of membrane proteins; - polyclonal antibodies production of membrane proteins and immunochemical detection.

Giuseppe Petrosillo: researcher at National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies (IBIOM). Scientific interest: molecular aspects of mitochondrial bioenergetics in health and disease. In particular, he studies the possible effect of oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation on various parameters of mitochondrial function, such as oxygen consumption, electron transport chain activity, membrane potential and membrane lipid composition, in vitro and in various pathophysiological situations.

Rocchina Miglionico is a research fellow at the Department of Sciences, University of Basilicata. The research activity is focused on structural and functional studies of proteins involved in pathogenetic processes and also on the characterization of the biological activity of plant extracts and synthetic molecules, in order to clarify the molecular mechanisms with which they carry out their antitumoral activities.